Add This Month in Xilem blog (#38)

* Add This Month in Xilem blog

* Fix capitalization nit

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+title = "This Month in Xilem, January 2024"
+authors = ["Raph Levien"]
+date = "2024-02-06 07:28:42"
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+Welcome to the first in the “this month in Xilem” series, bringing updates on the [Xilem] UI toolkit.
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+There were two blog posts on the new [Linebender blog](https://linebender.org/blog).
+The first, [Xilem 2024 plans](https://linebender.org/blog/xilem-2024/), sets out the goals for the project for the year.
+The second, [Roadmap for the Xilem backend in 2024](https://linebender.org/blog/xilem-backend-roadmap/), by Olivier Faure, presents a roadmap for the Xilem native widget set.
+A major feature of the roadmap is a clean boundary between the Xilem reactive framework and the lower level widget set.
+We hope that enables experimentation with other reactive frameworks and possibly integration with other projects, rather than requiring everybody to buy into the Xilem stack.
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+On the planning front, a major decision was whether to continue work on our own window creation library, [Glazier](https://github.com/linebender/glazier), or whether to join forces with [winit](https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit).
+Among other things, since Android is a primary target for our work, and winit already has a working Android back-end, it offers an appealing path to getting that up quickly.
+We have decided to try joining forces with winit, and look forward to future collaboration.
+Over the next few weeks, that will entail porting Xilem over to winit ([xilem#163](https://github.com/linebender/xilem/issues/163)) and also trying to land working Android IME (soft keyboard) support in winit ([winit#2993](https://github.com/rust-windowing/winit/pull/2993)).
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+In Vello, a major advance was porting the low level font handling code from the experimental swash crate to the production-quality [skrifa](https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations) ([vello#423](https://github.com/linebender/vello/pull/423)).
+Skrifa is being developed by Google Fonts as a memory safe library for loading font files, and is integrated into Chromium builds.
+Over the coming weeks, a goal is to release Vello (and supporting crates) on crates.io.
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+[Xilem]: https://github.com/linebender/xilem